Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright IV was a United States Army general, the commander of Allied forces in the Philippines, and prisoner of war during World War II.
Wainwright after World War II and promotion to full General
Lt. Col. John Millikin (left) and Wainwright (right) review troops at Ft. Myer, Virginia c. 1938
Wainwright as a brigadier general
General Wainwright and his staff negotiated their surrender with General Homma at Cabcaben, Bataan (6 May 1942).
Edward P. King
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Edward Postell King Jr. was a major general in the United States Army who gained prominence for leading the defense of the Bataan Peninsula in the Battle of Bataan against the Japanese invasion of the
Jonathan M. Wainwright (general)
…of all the islands. On 19 March, Wainwright was promoted to lieutenant general. A much skinnier Wainwright transferred to Corregidor. Major General Edward P. King was left in control on Bataan as the situation grew hopeless. Wainwright warned Washington that the troops would be starved into submission by 15 April…
General Edward King